News Update
September 30, 2015
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the Angus Foundation
The Angus Foundation’s Supporter Recognition Event this November will feature two outstanding sale offerings to benefit the organization’s youth, education and research initiatives — an elite bred Angus heifer and claim to the Association’s 18 millionth animal registration number. Both will be sold the evening of Monday, Nov. 2, and AngusAuctions.com will broadcast the event live online.
Through an Angus Foundation Board-approved sale, an elite bred Angus heifer, Nichols Lula B14 (AAA Reg. #17971576), donated by Nichols Farms will be auctioned with all proceeds used to start a research endowment in Dave Nichols’ honor. Go online to angusfoundation.org to view a video of the bred heifer. This fall, Nichols will be inducted into one of the livestock industry’s most prestigious honors, the Saddle & Sirloin Club Portrait Gallery in Louisville, Ky.
For those Angus history enthusiasts and collectors of Angus memorabilia, there will also be an auction for the American Angus Association’s 18 millionth animal registration number. Proceeds from this sale will benefit the Angus Foundation’s mission to support Angus youth, education and research.
For more information, please view the full Angus news release.
House Reauthorizes Mandatory Livestock Price Reporting
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association NCBA applauds the House in reauthorizing Mandatory Livestock Price Reporting through 2020. NCBA President Philip Ellis, a Wyoming cattle producer, said this action will ensure cattle producers have access to critical market information.
“We thank the members of the House in passing this important legislation to ensure cattlemen and women have access to market information,” said Ellis. “Failure to act would have left cattle producers nationwide without critical price information at a very significant time in the marketing year.”
Mandatory Price Reporting requires meat packers to report to USDA the prices they pay for cattle, hogs and sheep purchased from farmers and ranchers for slaughter, as well as the prices they receive for the sale of wholesale beef, pork and lamb. Mandatory Price Reporting also requires USDA to issue daily, weekly and monthly livestock and meat market reports.
“Unfortunately for America’s cattle producers, Senator Stabenow did not feel this legislation warranted an ‘essential government service’ designation, which makes market transparency vulnerable to future government service interruptions,” said Ellis.
For more information, please view the full NCBA news release.
#WomenInAg Infographics Show
Impact of Women in Agriculture
From the classroom to the farm to the boardroom, women in agriculture are helping to pave the way for a better future. As leaders, it is our responsibility to make sure the next generation of women are educated, encouraged and empowered to take on the challenges of meeting the world’s growing food, fuel and fiber needs. To celebrate and honor the contributions of women in agriculture, USDA is releasing a series of state-by-state infographics detailing the impact women have on agriculture in each state and across the country. Be sure to share these infographics on social media or print them to help tell the story of women in ag in your state.
Over the past few months, we’ve also been featuring the powerful stories of women in agriculture on the USDA blog. By following the #womeninag tag on the USDA blog, you can read first-person accounts from women like Carissa Koopmann Rivers, a fifth generation cow-calf rancher from Sunol, Calif., Casey Cox, the executive director of the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District, and Jewel Hairston, the dean of the College of Agriculture at Virginia State University.
For more information, please view the full USDA blog post online.
North Dakota Stockmen’s Recognizes Outstanding Employees
The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association (NDSA) recognized two employees — NDSA Executive Vice President Julie Ellingson and NDSA Brand Inspector Mike Schwab — for their long-term service to the state’s livestock producers during the NDSA’s 86th Annual Convention & Trade Show Sept. 26 in Bismarck.
Ellingson, the executive vice president since 2008 was honored for 20 years of service to the NDSA. She began her career at the NDSA in 1995 as the association’s communications director and editor of the North Dakota Stockman. She and her husband Chad raise registered-Angus cattle south of Saint Anthony along with their children, Stetson, Jameson, Sierra, Medora and Sheridan.
For more information, please view the full NDSA release online.
Texas AgriLife Extension to Host Program on Water Rights
Mark Twain once quipped: “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”
At no time in previous history has the fighting part been more true as Texas faces a water crisis, said Randy Reeves, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent for agriculture and natural resources in Gregg County.
The AgriLife Extension office in Gregg County will host “Who’s Water Is It?” at 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at the AgriLife Extension auditorium, 405 East Marshall Ave. in Longview. The event is free and open to the public, Reeves said.
“This will be a fact-filled evening with one of the most knowledgeable folks in the field, Judon Fambrough, who’s with the Texas Real Estate Center in College Station,” he said. “Fambrough is an attorney specializing in property rights, including oil and gas, wind power, hunting leases, and landowner liability.”
For more information, please view the Angus Journal Virtual Library calendar of upcoming events here.
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